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Regional Food Bank Continues to Fight Hunger in Oklahoma City

(Oklahoma City, Okla.) – Oct. 12, 2016 – Since 1980, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has been working with partner agencies and the community to fight hunger. Last fiscal year alone, the nonprofit distributed more than 12,804,318 pounds of food to help hungry Oklahoma City county residents.

“Thanks to generous support from the community, volunteers, donors, and board members, we are able to provide food to children, seniors and families struggling with hunger year-round,” said Dawn Burroughs, vice president of marketing at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. “As long as there is a need, the Regional Food Bank will be here to feed our hungry Oklahoma neighbors.

The nonprofit also runs hunger-fighting programs in Oklahoma City County, including Food for Kids. Last school year, the Regional Food Bank provided the equivalent of nearly 3 million meals to chronically hungry children through Food for Kids childhood hunger programs, which includes the Backpack Program and School Pantries.

“I am a single mother, a teacher’s assistant and my child is seven,” shared Tiffany, whose son is on the Backpack Program. “He has a medical condition as well that costs us a lot of money every month, so this really helps offset that cost and stress. I don’t have to worry about snacks and food.”

Oklahoma is one of the hungriest states in the nation, where one in four children struggles with hunger every day. Most of the clients served by the Regional Food Bank are children, seniors living on fixed incomes and working families who cannot make ends meet.

Together, we can solve hunger. To make a donation, or for more information, visit regionalfoodbank.org or call 405-600-3136.

About the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is the state’s largest private, domestic hunger-relief organization and a member of Feeding America’s network of Food Banks. The nonprofit provides enough food to feed more than 126,000 hungry Oklahomans each week through a network of more than 1,300 schools and charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. Since its inception in 1980, the Regional Food Bank has distributed more than 644 million pounds of food to feed Oklahoma’s hungry. For more information, visit http://www.regionalfoodbank.org; find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/regionalfoodbank or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/rfbo.